Thesaurus / dolorous
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For a time the Eastern Counties Railway had a somewhat dolorous career.
EAST ANGLIAJ. EWING RITCHIEThe farmer, half frightened by Anthony's dolorous shake of his head, exclaimed: "What's the matter, man?"
RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHMeanwhile he utters the most dolorous cries, and vents his impotent rage upon the tree which serves him for a refuge.
THE DESERT WORLDARTHUR MANGINShe has come just in time to lull our dolorous philosophy, to show incarnate in woman the victim and the instrument of destiny.
THE ENGLISH STAGEAUGUSTIN FILONThis seems dolorous enough to me, whose only real satisfaction just now is some hope that I am not sowing the wind.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. I (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOTHe spoke in a low tone surcharged with an anxiety whose exaggeration was too dolorous to catch.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?RUPERT HUGHESSadie shook her head in dolorous doubt, as she again bent over the keys of her typewriter.
WITHIN THE LAWMARVIN DANAHe gives that Quest as plentifully because it leads up to the "dolorous death and departing out of this world of them all."
THE ENGLISH NOVELGEORGE SAINTSBURYTo the left of the Bishop a group of roaring monks take up his words and repeat them in dolorous voices.
THE STORY OF PERUGIAMARGARET SYMONDSWell, yes; no doubt her marriage has given her a sort of dolorous experience.
A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN AND HIS FAMILYMRS. (MARGARET) OLIPHANTWORDS RELATED TO DOLOROUS
- blue
- dejected
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- doleful
- dolorous
- down
- down and out
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downbeat
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- droopy
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- grim
- heavyhearted
- in blue funk
- joyless
- lachrymose
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- mirthless
- miserable
- moody
- moony
- mournful
- pensive
- saddened
- saddening
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- torn up
- trite
- unhappy
- wet blanket
- wistful
- woebegone
- woeful
- afflicted
- agonized
- ailing
- anguished
- brokenhearted
- crestfallen
- dejected
- desolate
- despairing
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- discontented
- distressed
- doleful
- dolorous
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- heartbroken
- hopeless
- hurt
- hurting
- ill
- in pain
- injured
- melancholy
- mournful
- on a downer
- pained
- pathetic
- pitiable
- racked
- rueful
- ruthful
- sad
- sick
- sickly
- sorrowful
- strained
- suffering
- tormented
- tortured
- tragic
- troubled
- woebegone
- wounded
- wretched
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- dolorous
- dour
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- melancholy
- moody
- moping
- mournful
- perverse
- perversive
- sad
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- taciturn
- testy
- troubled
- ugly
- abject
- afflicted
- base
- bummed
- calamitous
- cheap
- contemptible
- dejected
- deplorable
- depressed
- despicable
- disconsolate
- distressed
- dolorous
- down
- down-and-out
- downcast
- faulty
- flimsy
- forlorn
- gloomy
- hapless
- hopeless
- hurting
- in the pits
- inferior
- low
- low-down
- mean
- melancholy
- miserable
- paltry
- pathetic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poor
- shabby
- shameful
- sordid
- sorrowful
- sorry
- spiritless
- tragic
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- vile
- weak
- woebegone
- woeful
- worthless
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